Fatigue, stress contributed to BHP train crash in WA's Pilbara, ATSB finds
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Fatigue, stress contributed to BHP train crash in WA's Pilbara, ATSB finds

ABC  

Fatigue caused by "unusual" circumstances involving spider bites contributed to a train crash in Western Australia's north earlier this year, the federal transport safety watchdog has found. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has today released its report into a "low speed" crash at BHP's Finucane Island iron ore facility, near Port Hedland, about 1,600 kilometres north of Perth. Mr Mitchell said the fly-in-fly-out train driver's "poor quality sleep" contributed to the collision. Spider bites partly to blame The ATSB report detailed the "unusual set of circumstances" that contributed to a lack of sleep, including the driver receiving treatment for two separate white-tail spider bites.

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